MY QUEEN
A WEEKLY JOURNAL FOR YOUNG WOMEN
No. 2. PRICE, FIVE CENTS.
MARION MARLOWE’S COURAGE
OR
A BRAVE GIRL’S STRUGGLE FOR LIFE AND HONOR
BY GRACE SHIRLEY
PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY STREET & SMITH, 238 William Street, New York City.
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No. 2. NEW YORK, October 6, 1900. Price Five Cents.
MARION MARLOWE’S COURAGE;
OR,
A BRAVE GIRL’S STRUGGLE FOR LIFE AND HONOR.
By GRACE SHIRLEY.
CHAPTER I.
A BOARDING-HOUSE EXPERIENCE.
“How much money have we left, Marion?”
“Nine dollars and seventy-five cents, butdon’t worry, sister! We’ll obtain more fromsomewhere, I’m sure. We cannot certainlybe going to starve in a great big city, full, asit is, of wealth and happiness!”
Dollie Marlowe sighed disconsolately. Shewas not so hopeful as her sister Marion.
The two girls were seated in a top floorroom of a cheap boarding-house, where theyhad gone only a day or two after Dollie’srescue from the clutches of Professor Dabroski,the hypnotist, who had abducted herfrom her home in the country.
Both girls were dressed in simple home-madefrocks, the same that they had wornwhen they first came to the city, but althoughtheir garments were coarse and absolutelydestitute of style they could not disguise thenatural beauty of the two maidens.
The girls were twins, but they did not lookat all alike, except in the general characteristicsof their features.
Dollie’s golden curls were bewitching as afairy’s, and her blue eyes sparkled eventhrough her tears, while Marion’s fair facewas sweet and charming in spite of the anxietiesto which she had been subjected. ForMarion’s first visit to the city had been fullof adventure. On her arrival she had beensent to the wrong address by Emile Vorse, afiend in the attire of a gentleman, who hadseen her at the station, and only rescuedfrom the insults of another fiend by a MissRay, who was kept almost a prisoner in theapartments to which Vorse sent Marion.
Miss Ray had confided to her that she hadbeen entrapped through a mock marriageand only remained quiet for the sake of herfamily, but Marion had induced her to runaway, and the young woman was now safein the bosom of her family.
After this experience came the rescue ofDollie from her abductor, an